I've narrowed it down to two guitars - The Epiphone ES and Casino Coupe. . The ES and the Casino Coupe are only superficially alike. A lot of guitarists find the size body of the original Casino a little unwieldy, but the coupe size, which is closer to a , was much more. M/F for my Epi ES P pro, you get the same. The Coupe is very much louder acoustically, while the ES's sound is closer. I am still yet to try/hear. The ES Pro with humbucking type Alnico coil tapped pickups and Push/Pull Volume Pots' knobs have a broader pallette of tones than you will. The biggest differences as someone else said between the two is that the Casino is fully hollow inside vs the ES having a block of wood. Casino Coupe is a hollow body guitar that comes with P90s. ES is a semi hollow guitar that comes with either humbuckers of P90s (I prefer. This is mostly due to their useful size. For the low low price quoted by the OP, or the even lower price of $ which I paid. The Casino Coupe is almost the same thing as the , just with P90's and a fully hollow body instead of humbuckers/semi-hollow. The real.